How to get nearby player?

[Luis95R]

Hi, I'm working on a mod that has a structure that spawns a mob in front of a player when they're near it. I don't want to spawn with childspawner or periodic spawner. The only mod I could find that did something similar was the "Haunted House" mod that spawns a Hound near the player when they get close to the haunted house. Sadly that mod is only for singleplayer DS so I can't use the code from it as an example.

Here is an example of the code that mode uses and I was wondering what it would be like in DST form.

Quote

local function onnear(inst)
    inst.components.childspawner:StartSpawning()
    inst.components.periodicspawner:Start()
                local lightning = SpawnPrefab("collapse_small")
                local hound = SpawnPrefab("hound")
                local player = GetPlayer()
                local pos = player:GetPosition()
                pos.x = pos.x - 4
                pos.z = pos.z - 4
                hound.Transform:SetPosition(pos:Get())      
                lightning.Transform:SetPosition(pos:Get())
        inst.AnimState:PlayAnimation("near", true)
--        inst.Light:Enable(true)

       --SpawnPrefab("spider_dropper").Transform:SetPosition(inst.Transform:GetWorldPosition(0,10,0))
       --SpawnPrefab("ghost").Transform:SetPosition(inst.Transform:GetWorldPosition(0,100,0))
end

As you can see GetPlayer() is no longer used in DST, so I'm not sure how to make the structure get the nearest player in DST and spawn a mob next to that player.

Any suggestions?

[alainmcd]

Use GetClosestInstWithTag(tag, inst, radius). The required arguments are simple enough: the tag you're looking for, the entity around which to look for, and the radius around said entity. For example:

local player = GetClosestInstWithTag("player", inst, MyRadius)	-- player characters have a "player" tag

GetPosition() and Transform:SetPosition(x, y, z) are unchanged from single player as far as I can tell.

[Maris]

local player = FindClosestPlayer(x, y, z, isalive)

where x,y,z are coordinates of point.

Also:

local player = FindClosestPlayerInRange(x, y, z, range, isalive)
local player = FindClosestPlayerToInst(inst, range, isalive)
local all_nearby_players = FindPlayersInRange(x, y, z, range, isalive)
local check_player_exist = IsAnyPlayerInRange(x, y, z, range, isalive)

But notice that DST code is different from DS code!

If you look at playerprox.lua, you will find that API is different. So you can use:

local function onnear(inst, player)
	.........

Yes, THE GAME will tell you who is triggered playerprox component. You shouldn't check it by yourself.

Just look at playerprox.lua. Here is the part of this file:

            if self.onnear ~= nil then
                self.onnear(inst, player)
            end

 

Edited October 27, 2016 by Maris

[Luis95R]

Thank you for responding guys!